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sMykhailo Minakov

  Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas, filosofijos mokslų daktaras, filosofijos ir politinių mokslų profesorius  

  Išsilavinimas

  1996 metais Kyjivo universiteto Mohylos akademijoje įgijo bakalauro laipsnį (filosofijos mokslai). 1998 metais sKyjivo universiteto Mohylos akademijoje pabaigė magistro studijas (filosofijos mokslai). 2000 metais Kyjivo sSkovorodos institute suteiktas filosofijos smokslų daktaro laipsnis. 2008 metais tapo habilituotas filosofijos smokslu daktaras Kyjivo Skovorodos institute. 2023 habilitacija politinės filosofijos ir tarptautinių santykių sistorijos  

 

 ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0619-7321

 

Pagrindiniai moksliniai interesai

Istorijos filosofija, politinė modernybė, posovietinės politinės ir intelektinės transformacijos, Ukrainos valstybingumas, ideologijos bei tarptautinių santykių istorija ir teorija Rytų Europoje ir Šiaurės Eurazijoje.

Mokslinis darbas

Nuo 2026 Vyresnysis mokslo darbuotojas Lietuvos Istorijos Institute.

2026 balandis-birželis kviestinis mokslo bendradarbis Leibnizo šiuolaikinės istorijos centre Postsdame.

2025-2026 DAAD politikos mokslų profesorius, Europos Viadrinos universitete, Frankfurte prie Oderio.

Nuo 2021 profesorius, Filosofų gildija, Laisvasis universitetas, Ryga.

2017-2025 vyresnysis patarėjas, vyriausiasis tyrėjas Ukrainos klausimais, Kennano institute, Woodrow Wilson tarptautiniame mokslininkų centre, Vašingtone, DC (Europoje reziduojantis bendradarbis), vyriausiasis redaktorius „Kennan Focus Ukraine“.

2001-2018 filosofijos ir politikos mokslų profesorius (docentas (2001-2007), docentas (2007-2016), profesorius (2016-2018) - Filosofijos katedroje, Kyjivo Mohylos akademijoje, Kyjive.

2022-2023 metai kviestinis profesorius, Politikos mokslų katedroje, Pavijos universitete.

2017-2019 DAAD politikos mokslų profesorius, Europos Viadrinos universitete, Frankfurte prie Oderio.

2012 kviestinis profesorius Harvardo universitete, Kembridže.  

Pagrindinės publikacijos

Knygos

Monografijos

• The Post-Soviet Human. Philosophical Reflections on Social History after the End of Communism (Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2024).
• Диалектика современности в Восточной Европе [išvertus iš rusų k.: Dialectics of modernity in Eastern Europe] (Kyiv: Laurus, 2020).
• История опыта [išvertus iš rusų k.: History of Experience] (Kyiv: Laurus, 2019). Knyga prieinama ukrainiečių kalba: Історія поняття досвіду (Kyiv: Tsentr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2007).
• Development and Dystopia. Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2018).
• Вчення Канта про віру розуму [išvertus iš ukrainiečių k.: Kant’s Teaching on Faith of Reason] (Kyiv: Tsentr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2001).

Populiariosios filosofijos ir istorijos knygos

• From Servant to Leader. Chronicles of Ukraine under Zelensky’s Presidency, 2019–2024

  (Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2025).
• Photosophy (Kyiv: Laurus, 2017).
• Dictionary of Misprints (Kyiv: Tsekh, 1st ed. — 2008; 2nd ed. — 2010).

Redaguoti leidiniai

Knygos

• Minakov, M. (ed.). Philosophy Unchained. Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical
  Thought (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023).
• Minakov, M. (ed.). Inventing Majorities. The Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies
  (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2022).
• Minakov, M., Kasianov, G., Rojansky, M. (eds). From “The Ukraine” to Ukraine. A
  Contemporary History, 1991-2021 (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2021). Also in Ukrainian: Нариси
  новітньої історії України (Kyiv: Laurus, 2021).
• Minakov, M., Isachenko, D., Sasse, G. (eds). Post-Soviet Secessionism, Nation-Building and
  State-Failure after Communism (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2021).
• Etkind, A., Minakov, M. (eds). Ideology after Union: Political Doctrines, Discourses, and
  Debates in Post-Soviet Societies (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020).
• Rabkin, Y., Minakov, M. (eds). Demodernization: The Future in the Past (Stuttgart: ibidem,
  2018). Also in Italian: Demodenizzazzione. Il Futuro nel Passato (Milano: Ledizioni, 2021).

Žurnalų leidiniai

• The Fate of Philosophy after the Fall of the USSR, Ideology and Politics Journal 1(20),
  2022.
• Universal Norms in the Time of Sovereigntism, Ideology and Politics Journal 1(17), 2021.
  (co-editor with Georgii Kasianov) The Image of The Other in Post-Soviet Societies,
  Ideology and Politics Journals 2(16), 2020.
• (co-editor with Yana Prymachenko) The Freedom and Subjection in the Long 1989 Year.
  Societies in Eastern and Southern Europe in 1989/91, Ideology and Politics Journal 3(14),
  2019.
• (co-editor with Olga Shparaga) Ideology and Education in Post-Soviet Countries,
  Ideology and Politics Journal 2(13), 2019.
• (co-editor with Daria Isachenko and Gwendolyn Sasse) Secessionisms in Europe:
  Societies, Political Systems and International Order under Stress, Ideology and Politics
  Journal 1(12), 2019.
• (co-editor with Stefano Bianchini) State-building Politics after the Yugoslav and Soviet
  Collapse, The Southeastern Europe Journal 3(42), Brill: 2018.
• (co-editor with Tatiana Shchyttsova) Logos and Pathos: Humanities in the Conditions of
  War, The Ideology and Politics Journal 3(11), 2018.
• (co-editor with Alexander Etkind) Post-Soviet Transit and Demodernization, The
  Ideology and Politics Journal 1(9), 2018.
• Post-Soviet Transit between Revolution and Restoration, The Ideology and Politics
  Journal 2 (8), 2017.
• (co-editor with Isaac Webb) Freedom and Militarism in Post-Soviet Societies, The
  Ideology and Politics Journal 1(6), 2016.
• War, Propaganda and Political Process in Post-Soviet Societies, The Ideology and Politics
  Journal 1(5), 2015.
• Post-Soviet Order between the Tradition and Modernity, The Ideology and Politics Journal
  1(4), 2014.
• The Post-Soviet Contrasts: Memory, Ideology, Conflict, The Ideology and Politics Journal
  1(3), 2013.
• (co-editor with Myron Stachiw) Higher Education, Ideology and Politics in the Post
  Soviet Countries, The Ideology and Politics Journal 2(2), 2012.
• Ideological Innovations in the Post-Soviet Countries, The Ideology and Politics Journal
  1(1), 2012.

Moksliniai straipsniai ir knygų dalys

• “The Absent Sovereign and the Invisible Foundation. Political Liberalism’s Aporias
  in
  Theorizing Constituent Power”, Philosophy & Social Criticism. DOI:
  10.1177/01914537261434929
• “Linguistic Sovereignty and the Ontology of Rights: The State Language
  Commissioner in Post-Transit Ukraine”, Ab Imperio 3 (2025): 56–77. DOI:
  10.1353/imp.2025.a977004
• “Theoretical Reproduction in Shadows of Dual Coloniality: Decolonial Theory in
  Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia”, Ideology and Politics Journal 28(2): 23–48. DOI:
  10.36169/2227-6068.2025.02.00002
• “Freedom and Progress at the Dawn of the Age of Will: The Struggle of Two
  Enlightenments in the Current Euro-Atlantic Debate”, The Ideology and Politics
  Journal 1(27) (2025): 97–144. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2025.01.00005
• “Kantian Studies in Contemporary Ukraine”, Studies in East European Thought, 2025,
  DOI: 10.1007/s11212-025-09721-1
• “Balancing Coercion and Extortion: Change and Continuity in Ukrainian Statehood”,
  Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società 7(1) (2025): 85–97. DOI:
  10.54103/2612-6672/28780
• “Between Historicity and Normativity. Reception of German Classical Philosophy in
  Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophical Studies.” Intersezioni. Review of the History
  of Ideas 3 (2024): 281–306. DOI: 10.1404/115078
• “The End of a Great Era: Post-Soviet Transformation in a Historical Perspective”,
  Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società 5(1) (2023): 178–193.
  DOI: 10.54103/2612-6672/20507
• “Political creativity and its democratic and autocratic outcomes: The case of the
  post-Soviet period, 1989–2022”, Ideology and Politics Journal 23(1) (2023): 57–107.
  DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2023.01.00003
• “The Prehistory of Post-Soviet Philosophies”, Ideology and Politics Journal 1(20)
  (2022): 8–43. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2022.01.00001
• “The Protest Movements’ Opportunities and Outcomes: The Euromaidan and the
  Belarusian
  Protest–2020 Compared”, Protest 1(2) (2021): 272–298.
  DOI: 10.1163/2667372X-01020004
• “The Sovereigntist Turn: Sovereignty as a Contested Concept Again”, Ideology and
  Politics Journal 1(17) (2021): 87–112. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2020.01.00019
• “Othering from Within. The Ideological Function of Ukrainian Institute of National
  Remembrance in 2015–2018”, Ideology and Politics Journal 2(16) (2020): 215–228.
• “Post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Achievements in Post-Soviet Development in Six
  Eastern European Nations, 1991–2020”, Ideology and Politics Journal 3(14) (2019):
  171–193.
• "On the extreme periphery. The status of post-Soviet non-recognised states in the
  world-system”, Ideology and Politics Journal 2(13) (2019): 39–72.
• “Модерність і мир. Уроки прикладного просвітництва Канта” [from Ukrainian:
  Modernity and Peace. The Lessons of Kant’s Applied Enlightenment]. Ukraina
  Moderna 26 (2019): 99–117.
• “Возвращение к самому важному: Философское восстание Льва Шестова” [from
  Russian: A return to the most important: Lev Shestov’s philosophical rebellion],
  Istoriia filosofii 23(1) (2018): 82–95. DOI: 10.21146/2074-5869-2018-23-1-82-95
• (in co-authorship with Stefano Bianchini) “State-building Politics after the Yugoslav
  and Soviet Collapse: The Western Balkans and Ukraine in a Comparative
  Perspective”. Southeastern Europe Journal 3(42) (2018): 291–304. DOI:
  10.1163/18763332-04203001

• “Utopian Images of the West and Russia Among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan:

  Elements of Ideological Framing of the Conflict in Ukraine in 2013 2014”. Russian Politics & Law 53(3) (2015): 68—85.

  DOI:10.1080/10611940.2015.1053785

Politikos mokslai ir tarptautinių santykių istorija

• “War-Making and Autocratisation in Post-Soviet States, 1991-2025”. Quaderni di
  Scienze Politiche 29 (2025): 133–160. 10.69117/QDSP.28.2025.06

• (co-authored with Dmytro Vovk) “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2024”. In: Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert, Richard (Eds). The 2024 International Review of Constitutional Reform (pp. 473–476). Published by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism 2024, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5706743

• “Postsowjetische De-facto Staaten: Die politischen Systeme Abchasiens und
  Transnitriens in vergleichender Perspektive”, in: Priebus, S., Beichelt, T. (Hrsg.).
  (2025). Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025, 365
  390. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43647-6_19
• “Eurasian Middle Powers in a Changing Interstate System: The Cases of Turkey and
  Kazakhstan.” Annual Review of Global Affairs 1 (2024): 367–380.
• (co-authored with Dmytro Vovk) “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2023”. In:
  Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert, Richard (Eds). The 2023 International Review of
  Constitutional Reform (Austin: University of Texas, 2024), 378–382.
• “Patronalism and Political Systems of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: The Cases of
  Abkhazian and Transnistrian Resilience”, Quaderni di Scienze Politiche 25 (2024) 49
  78.
• “War, De-Oligarchization, and the Possibility of Anti-Patronal Transformation in
  Ukraine”. In: Madlovics, B., Magyar, B. (eds.). Ukraine's Patronal Democracy and the
  Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War. Vol. 1. (Budapest: CEU Press, 2023), 141
  166. DOI: 10.7829/jj.3985461.9.
• “Elections in Wartime Ukraine Would Test Ukraine’s Legal-Political Flexibility”,
  Kennan Cable 59 (2023): 1–9.
• “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2022”. In: Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert,
  Richard (eds), The 2022 International Review of Constitutional Reform, Austin:
  University of Texas, 2023, 317–320.
• “Un siècle de système politique ukrainien : l'expérience de construction d'un État en
  Europe orientale aux XX e et XXI e siècles”, Connexe 8 (2022): 169–186.
  DOI: 10.5077/journals/connexe.2022.e1029.
• “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2021”. In: Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert,
  Richard (Eds). The 2021 International Review of Constitutional Reform (Austin:
  University of Texas, 2022), 233–236.
• “Gli esiti dei primi sei mesi della guerra russo-ucraina: aspetti militari e di politica
  interna”. In: Boccalatte, Luciano, Borgna, Paolo, e Marchis, Riccardo (a cura di). Il
  disegno neoimperiale della Russia di Putin e le sue guerre. Materiali per opporsi e
  costruire la pace (Torino: Edizioni SEB27, 2022), 28–34.
• “La Crisi in Ucraina”. In: Ferrari, A., Tafuro Ambrosetti, E. (eds.). Tensioni nello spazio
  ex sovietico: i casi di Bielorussia, Kazakistan e Ucraina (Milano: Istituto per gli Studi di
  Politica Internazionale, 2022), 18–26.
• “Sovereignty as a Contested Concept: The Cases of Trumpism and Putinism”. In:
  Minakov, M. (ed.). Inventing Majorities. Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies
  (Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2022), 281–320.
• “Ideological Creativity. Introduction to Post-Soviet Ideologies”. In: Minakov, M. (ed.).
  Inventing Majorities. Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies (Stuttgart: ibidem
  Verlag, 2020), 9–20.
• “The Belarusian Protest Movement of 2020 from an Eastern European Comparative
  Perspective”, Ricerche Slavistiche 4(64) (2021): 61–83.

Filosofijos ir idėjų istorijos

• “Away from Homo sovieticus: Images of Departure from the Soviet Past in Ukrainian
  and Russian Literature and Philosophy of the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century”,
  in Thomas Grob, Tomáš Glanc, Anna Hodel, and Gunnar Lenz (Eds.), Imagining the
  Post-Soviet 1990s: Literature, Art, Performance, Cinema. London: Routledge, 2025
• “Truth, Meontology, and Democracy. A Polemical Engagement with Arvydas
  Grišinas’s The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century”, Ideology and Politics
  Journal 28(2): 158–167.
• “Engineers of New Souls. Post-Soviet Caesura and the Design of New Social Worlds
  in the Philosophy and Literature of Ukraine and Russia in the 1990s” [in Ukr.:
  Інженери нових душ. Пострадянська цезура і проєктування нових соціальних
  світів у філософії і літературі України та Росії у 1990-х роках], Kοινὴ. The Almanac
  of Philosophical Essays 4 (2025): 1–59.
• (in co-authroship with Simon Radchenko) “The Structure of Archaeological
  Knowledge and the Concept of Archaeological Culture: The Perspective of Actor
  Network Theory” [in Ukr.: Структура археологічного знання та поняття
  археологічної культури: Пропозиції до перегляду в перспективі акторно
  мережевої теорії]. Archeologia – Археологія 4 (2024): 104–124.
  https://doi.org/10.15407/arheologia2024.04.104
• “Towards an Ontology of the Caesura. Reflections on the Russian-Ukrainian war.” In:
  Vanbrabant, J. (ed.) Philosophers on the Russian Aggression in Ukraine (Nordhausen:
  Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2023), 53–67.
• “German Classics in East of Europe. The study of German classical philosophy in the
  late USSR and post-Soviet Belarus, Russia and Ukraine” [in Rus.: Немецкие классики
  на Востоке Европы. Изучение немецкой классической философии в позднем
  СССР и постсоветских Беларуси, России и Украине], Kοινὴ. The Almanac of
  Philosophical Essays 3 (2023): 68–122.
• “Philosophy Unchained. Introductory Notes on the Post-Soviet Philosophical
  Condition”. In: Minakov, M. (ed.) Philosophy Unchained. Developments in Post-Soviet
  Philosophical Thought (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023), 17–20.
• “The Soviet Philosophical Condition. Adventures of Philosophy in Soviet Union”. In:
  Minakov, M. (ed.) Philosophy Unchained. Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical
  Thought (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023), 21–74.
• “Gift and Bribe: Political Ontology of Eastern European Chiasm of Modernity and
  Tradition”. In: Kiryukhin, D. (ed.) Community and tradition in global times (Washington,
  D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2021), 195–209.
• (in co-authorship with Yana Prymachenko) “The Velvet Revolutions of 1989: A
  Lasting 'End of History'?”, Ideology and Politics Journal 3(14) (2019): 4–9.

Socialinių mokslų ir istorijos

• (in co-authorship with Etkind, Alexander) “«We have no postcolonial theory as
  such, but only different imperial experiences». A Conversation with Alexander Etkind
  on the Imperial Experience of Russia in Global Perspective”. eSamizdat, XIV (2021):
  185–190.
• “Всемирно-гражданское значение беларусского протеста – 2020 и
  постсоветских протестных движений” [from Russian: Universal significance of the
  Belarussian protest – 2020 and of other post-Soviet protest movements], TOPOS.
  Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies, 2 (2021): 45–74.
• “La caduta dell’URSS: 30 anni di transizione” (parte 1, parte 2, ), La nuova Europa
  (20.12.2021).
• “Between Fire and Fire. From Flash to Flash of the Ukrainian Revolutions.” In
  Between Fire and Fire. Ukrainian Art Now. Kyiv, 2019 (Exhibition catalog): 120–130.
• “Demodernization in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe.” In: Rabkin, Y., M. Minakov
  (eds). Demodernization: The Future in the Past (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2018): 241–260.

Kontaktai

El. paštas: mikhailminakov1971@gmail.com